Oct 24 2013
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In recent years, marketers have noticed a strange, unnatural trend among American men. Normally doing man things…
Mar 12 2013
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Companies have always used consumers for research purposes, collecting information through surveys and sweepstakes…
Nov 15 2011
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New market research indicates that consumers are put off by calling foods "low-fat," "low-calorie," or "diet."…
Nov 11 2011
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In recent years, Black Friday "doorbuster" sales have gotten nuttier and nuttier. Doors open at 5 am— no! 4 am! Flat…
Jan 31 2011
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Waiting sucks. New research shows that how long you had to do it in childhood makes you less patient now. But just…
Sep 24 2008
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The chief inspection official of China's quality watchdog says that the milk crisis which sickened 53,000 Chinese children has, hopefully, come to a close. Even so, some women are responding to the milk powder scandal by offering their services as wet nurses to families wary of using formula. Breast-feeding might also…
Sep 19 2008
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Oh boy: New reports from a Chinese watchdog agency have extended the melamine-tainted crisis to liquid milk. The agency claims that 10% of samples from Mengniu Dairy Group Co. and Yili Industrial Group Co. (China's two largest dairy companies) contained melamine. As of this morning, 18 people have been arrested in…
Sep 12 2008
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Reports are surfacing today that China is being rocked by a tainted baby formula scare that has resulted in the…
Aug 26 2008
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Those gay marriage/commitment ceremony cards from Hallmark that the made the American Family Association take to…
Jul 8 2008
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Hello Kitty's success could be explained because consumers viewed her as a "blank canvas" of possibility and could…